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Lebronwon 01/15/20 1:26:20 PM #1: |
https://www.npr.org/2020/01/14/796012607/women-make-up-less-than-8-of-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-inductees
Tomorrow, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will announce its 2020 inductees. And while this year's nominees include three woman-driven acts, critics have long chided the Rock Hall for the low percentage of women in its pantheon of performers. For instance, after warmly accepting her induction into the Rock Hall last spring, Janet Jackson threw down the gauntlet. "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, please: 2020, induct more women," she demanded. The crowd cheered. Her co-inductee, Stevie Nicks, also criticized the Rock Hall that night for its low number of women in its ranks. Rock Hall Foundation CEO Joel Peresman says he's heard that complaint before. "We're trying to make this as gender-neutral as possible and just look at as: the criteria of being inducted is quality of work," Peresman says. "And if it's male or female ... that's the criteria." Former Rock Hall board chair Jann Wenner echoed that sentiment in a Billboard interview this past fall, adding "racially-neutral" to the judging criteria, but "that's a very easy thing for a white man to say," argues Evelyn McDonnell. McDonnell writes about music and teaches journalism at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Last year, she did an analysis of gender representation in the hall of fame and found a problem. For every female bandleader inducted, her male band mates also go into the hall of fame. McDonnell discovered that, over the course of 34 years, that process has yielded 69 women out of 888 inductees or less than 8%. "Since the dawn of the recording industry, there have been prominent women, sometimes women who were dominant," McDonnell says. "Big Mama Thornton sang the original and to me, still the best version of 'Hound Dog,' and she's never been inducted." --- Not 1, not 2, not 3, not 4, not 5, not 6, not 7 ... Copied to Clipboard!
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